Today’s Action: Demand Congress Protect Dreamers

In September, President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which prevented the deportation of 800,000 young people brought to our country as children.

Trump plans to begin deportations starting in March, unless Congress takes action now by passing the bipartisan DREAM Act — and the next two weeks provides the best chance to make that happen.

Government funding will run out on December 22. Senate Republicans need Democrats to agree on long-term funding legislation to avoid government shutdown. That means Democrats have the leverage to demand the DREAM Act be included in the bill, and they must use it.

But wait, there’s more! Trump hopes to parasitically latch his most racist campaign promises to the fate of Dreamers, including a Mexican border wall and deportations of asylum seekers. When Democrats fight for the DREAM Act this month, we must demand they keep it clean of Trump’s political bile.